User:Mary s

Editor emerita and long-time contributor on this wiki and the E.T. Wiki.

Blogging at 2choose.wordpress.com, only1gang.com and realaliens.org

Projection of the next phase of the wiki: the people's wiki

To correct the one major flaw of the wiki, I propose we "flip the wiki." It is a call to step away from spiritual dependency on a product through the uncharted wilderness of independence in a collaborative work based on a firm and clear tradition known already in the world and the highest ideal we can demonstrate here in the world, interdependence.

Along the way we get a really clear understanding how AI works, because we are builing an external brain, each one of us, and we know what is on the other's brain--because they put it out there. We link. This is group mind. In a collective, it represents the interdependenc that, frankly, would demonstrate that the NM is actually a movement with traction in the world. Hence, this criteria before we through ourselves to the lions of Wikipedia.

It's really what is called a "commonplace book" though far from commonplace

The wiki must not expand nor drill down any further. Now is the time to demonstrate the higher purpose of the wiki: replicate. It has to be broken into Categories on student-held sites. "Let our advocacy be the demonstration of our lives in the world," (Ellen Mitchell, 2022, as heard at her Memorial Service) and let this be the online advocacy that ignore all compunction to broadcast for the sake of simple copy/paste to get it out there and connected to a network of individuals who are then sharing what they have found and held dear enough to make it findable for themselves first.

A group-sourced index to Steps to Knowledge

BYOW--Build Your Own Wiki The book, How to Take Smart Notes, will illuminate everything! See example how to build your own Steps index using one platform WordPress. Note

the use of Categories that allow the major corridors of the New Message to be broken down into sub-categories

and the tags that will collect Steps together under good topics for wiki pages.

A calling to all students : Decentralize the Wiki, reform Ye Olde Wiki

Let it begin with Steps to Knowledge, off the wiki platform, on WordPress (Wix or Naver, wherever you can archive your Step journal post) or on notecards.

Step 166: My mission is great. Therefore, I am free to do small things.'

Any basic website builder can get you what is needed, and at little to no cost. If tech-averse, go ahead and use pen and paper. I use both.

You can begin with nearly blank pages, as long as you post a Step a day. Choose a title for the post in your own words, include as much of your Step as you wish for Review later. Include only the Step name and number if you wish. The data we collate about the key words and themes will go on a spreadsheet.

And the wiki will get a Steps index that we know is good and reliable, and most hopefully, our wiki training becomes a practice that is led by the Revelation and not our own impatience.

How to Proceed

First, do what the Messenger does: make your own wiki. This first step is the hardest to approach, having everything to do with everything.

Set the foundation for it by logging the Steps. This one strategy will integrate everything else that goes in.

Make your practice as you proceed through Steps to Knowledge. Be patient with yourself to find the right medium where you can participate and honor your inclinations. It is preferable, for the "Decentralized Wiki" that you can share your work. To make the New Message findable, first for your own reference and also for your reach. your aim is to build a website that allows you to sort "published" and unpublished posts, label key words and themes and able to link to your NM saved content by topic.

Post each Step online where you can tag, categorize and comment on your post (set to "private" at first, just for your own comfort level--not really necessary if no one knows your site exists ... except by serendipity);

And we will have a Steps index in no time!

Make it your own and

• add the events of the day (embedded in code for editors' eyes only <!--text to hide-->)
• do rearrange the paragraphs in the Step, to better see what is being asked. Again, the post is not ready for the public until at least half of it is in your own words.
• copy the instructions for the hourly and for the longer practices for your Step review
• use Categories for the major corridors and break those down into further aspects
• use tags for key words, as many tags as you see
• post each Step in order, to keep them consecutive.
• As often as that Step comes to mind, do jot down your insights or NM quotes as comments or in unpublished drafts
• Set the visibility to "private" for now. Someday you can post a related blog that includes your own thoughts.

Be patient, and

do not share with the public either

a good and exact copy of the Step or

a rearranged version.

other wiki work can really be set aside in order to focus on the Steps Index project

Step 109: I will not be in a hurry today.

It's still fine to make

Casual edits--quotes with the name and date of the revelation-- are just fine! Put them right there on the page or make a new page if needed.

OR send great quotes to the Wiki editors on the Worldwide Community site.

OR add your quote with name and date of the revelation where you found it under the Discussion tab at the top of every page, if you would like another editor to follow up

Formal edits take practice. The formatting comes easily with repetition. There are simple ways to get enough practice to gain confidence.

Focus on one skill at a time, like cross-references or images or references.